I actually disagree on what the biggest difference is. For the average everyday user, the biggest difference is the desktop environment. Having a desktop environment that the user finds intuitive, easy, and is stable is by far the most important thing.
That’s what a lot of folks might see, but almost every distro can install any desktop environment + window manager combo with the exact settings of the other distros. I’m happy some distros are theming/reskinning the env to look unique, but ultimately it’s just a coat of paint that you can slap on any distro & shouldn’t be a reason for picking a distro… but could be a reason to decide on which DE+WM you would like to run.
I actually disagree on what the biggest difference is. For the average everyday user, the biggest difference is the desktop environment. Having a desktop environment that the user finds intuitive, easy, and is stable is by far the most important thing.
That’s what a lot of folks might see, but almost every distro can install any desktop environment + window manager combo with the exact settings of the other distros. I’m happy some distros are theming/reskinning the env to look unique, but ultimately it’s just a coat of paint that you can slap on any distro & shouldn’t be a reason for picking a distro… but could be a reason to decide on which DE+WM you would like to run.